Category Archives: Achievements

English & Literacy, Events, iAchieve, School Improvement Plan

Meet the Teacher 2016

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On Thursday we held our annual Meet the Teacher event. This was an opportunity for parents and carers to find out what our school priorities are for the year, meet their child/ren’s teacher and find out about their learning. Thank you to everyone who attended this event, and to the house ad vice captains for helping out. If you were unable to attend the presentations and learning letters will be available in the blog.

Feedback from the event included:

  • I am fully aware and impressed with the plans for this session.
  • I feel more informed.
  • Great to know what my child will be learning in the coming year,
  • Useful to know about the class routine.
  • Very happy to see the amount of resources available.

Standards and Quality Report

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/meet-the-teacher-2016-17

Achievements, English & Literacy, Events, House Meetings, House Meetings, House Points, Primary 7

House Captain Election 2016

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On Friday we held our annual House Captain Election. The presentations this year were of a very high standard and all P7s worked very hard to put together their manifestos under strict time limits. A big well done to all the Primary 7s who ran for election and congratulations to our new House and Vice Captains.

Cunnigar:

House Captain: Holly

Vice Captain: Sean

Almondell:

House Captain: Charlie T

Vice Captain: Louis

Calderwood:

House Captain: Zach

Vice Captain: Grace

Linhouse:

House Captain: Jamie

Vice Captain: Freya

Achievements, Anytime Anywhere Learning, Events, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Technologies

Class of 2016

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Every year West Lothian Council holds a ‘Class of …’ so Head Teachers can share interesting and new practice and they can find out about what’s new in education. On Friday Mrs McKenzie was invited along to Class of 2016 to share how we use ICT to support our learning and teaching at Mid Calder Primary. You can view the video below.

Achievements, Events, Health & Wellbeing, News, Primary 7, Responsible Roles, Uncategorized

Magical Mediators Receive Scottish School Award

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Today the Magical Mediators were invited to attend the Young Talks Conference at Dundee University organised by the Scottish Mediation Network.

We listened to presentations from Tam Baillie (The Children and Young People’s Commissioner in Scotland), Nick Patel (a Mediation Magician) and from people who have a full time career in Mediation. We also attended two different workshops.

We were one of two schools who were asked to share our peer mediation journey. Keira, Anna, Sean and Caitlin presented at the school’s showcase to over 100 participants.

We took part in a Skype video chat with a school in America, it was interesting to see how peer mediation operates in another country. We also watched a video about peer mediation in Scotland and it was lovely to see our P7 peer mediators from last year.

The biggest surprise of all was when we received the award for our Outstanding Contribution to Peer Mediation in Scotland by a School and the prize of a free mediation training session from Jeremy Scuse (the managing director at Catalyst Mediation Ltd).

We our so proud of our Magical Mediators, both from last session and this session and all their achievements – congratulations!

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/peer-mediation-mid-calder-primary-school

Achievements, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 7, Responsible Roles

Peer Mediation Conference 2016

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Due to the ongoing success of our Magical Mediator programme, our Magical Mediators have been invited along to attend and present at the Young Talk Conference at Dundee University. Unfortunately due to limited spaces all our Magical Mediators are not able to attend, to ensure everyone felt included we created a video as part of our presentation.

Programme for Young Talk Conference 2016 

Achievement Awards, Achievements, Events, House Points, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Star Writer, Top Scorers

Term 4: Achievement Assembly

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On Friday we had our final Achievement Assembly of this session. Each class nominated one pupil to receive the Achievement Award for their class and parents and carers were invited along to watch the assembly.

We also presented Star Writer Awards, Magical Mathematician Awards, Top Scorer prizes, Smoke Free Homes certificates, ICT Awards and announced the winning house for the term.

Well done to everyone who received an award!